TV series on relics gives viewers an easy way to understand history
Most regular viewers of Chinese television are familiar with this line: "You have received a message from a national treasure, please check." This is because it is the first sentence of every episode of Every Treasure Tells a Story, a hit documentary series which introduces cultural relics of ancient China.
The series, which began airing in 2018, is a big success thanks to its vivid explanations about cultural relics. Namesake books have also recently been published in Chinese, English, French and Spanish by China International Communication Center.
The documentary series is expected to run for four 25-episode seasons, with each five-minute-long episode introducing one cultural relic. Now that the first two seasons have been aired, books related to the series and the relics featured have also been published.
